Neowin News Feed for: Failure

Bad day: Falcon 9 crashes upon landing after a record 23 flights, Polaris Dawn postponed

Martin Hodás — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:36:01 +0000

Today, SpaceX experienced a series of bad luck. Weather stopped a historic crewed mission from launching, and another Falcon 9 rocket crashed upon landing, halting the third planned flight, too. Read more...

Falcon 9 flew just 15 days after failed launch. SpaceX simply stripped it of faulty hardware

Martin Hodás — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 18:10:02 +0000

SpaceX explained the issue that led to a failed flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, obtained early permission from the FAA, and launched another batch of Starlink satellites while it works on fixes. Read more...

SpaceX ends streak of 334 flawless flights as Falcon 9 fails. Starlink survivors to die soon

Martin Hodás — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:04:01 +0000

The super-reliable Falcon 9 rocket experienced a rare anomaly, breaking its near-perfect track record. Its upper stage lost the engine during the orbit insertion of SpaceX's own Starlink satellites. Read more...

A parachute failed during a crewed landing of Blue Origin's return-to-flight mission

Martin Hodás — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:44:01 +0000

Blue Origin's New Shepard returned to crewed suborbital flights, successfully sending six astronauts to space. However, after a long hiatus, there is another huge concern due to a parachute failure. Read more...

Microsoft AI listed Ottawa Food Bank in travel guide, suggested "going empty stomach"

Sayan Sen — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:34:01 +0000

It is yet another goof-up by Artificial Intelligence this time by Microsoft's. In a recently published travel guide for Canada, the AI recommended going to a food bank on an "empty stomach". Read more...

Puget data suggests Intel CPUs generally were more reliable than AMD's in 2019-21

Sayan Sen — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 11:24:01 +0000

Data from the last two years on AMD and Intel Ryzen, Core, Threadripper, and Xeon CPUs shows that the processors generally from the Team Blue were more reliable than its rival Red team ones. Read more...

Jeff Bezos: Amazon Fire Phone was a "tiny blip... we're working on much bigger failures"

Andy Weir — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:08:01 +0000

Amazon's Fire Phone was a sales disaster, costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars - but its CEO Jeff Bezos is unfazed, and says Amazon is "working on much bigger failures right now". Read more...

BT Broadband outage affects thousands of UK internet users

James Walker — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:35:09 +0000

Major UK ISP BT has been forced to apologize after many of its millions of broadband users lost internet connectivity partially or totally for a period of a couple of hours earlier this morning. Read more...

Air traffic control system delays flights, lack of memory to blame

Andrew Stevenson — Mon, 12 May 2014 13:19:18 +0000

Holidaying? Business? There are many reasons to catch a flight, but in the Los Angeles area, a glitch on 30th April caused delays to hundreds of flights and raised questions about the computer system. Read more...

Motorola's Droid X is plagued with screen failures

Brad Sams — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:39:42 +0000

While the iPhone has gotten all the attention of late for its antenna issue, it goes to show that hardware problems are nothing new in the mobile phone industry. Motorola’s Droid X launched only... Read more...

Dell and Sony report mass hardware failures

Tzvi Friedman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:32:19 +0000

Hardware is having a rough season. After all the attention heaped on the iPhone 4 and its antenna and screen woes, two big PC manufacturers have come out today with bad news about their machines. According... Read more...

OneCare was not a failure, Microsoft exec says

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:01:37 +0000

Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for the EMEA region. Roger Halbheer, in a blog posting on Monday, said... Read more...

Valve fails at setup

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:29:05 +0000

Some of you may recall back to 2003 when the source code to Half Life 2 was released to bittorrent. Well, Valve doesn't take this kind of thing lightly, especially when the hacker emails Valve... Read more...

Communications Failure Grounds Memphis Airspace

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:07:28 +0000

The FAA cleared airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and grounded all flights headed to or from the area yesterday after a telecommunications network failed at 12:30 p.m. EDT. Federal Aviation Administration officials told... Read more...

Altered iPhones at Risk of Failure

Tom Warren — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:35:22 +0000

Apple warned on Monday that iPhone owners who have used unauthorized programs to unlock the cellular service feature of their handsets may end up with a phone that does not work after the company's next... Read more...

EFF declares music download suits a failure

Tom Warren — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:01:34 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) policy of suing users caught downloading music illegally has done nothing to slow the trade of copyrighted music on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation... Read more...

Sony Claims PS3 Failure Rate of Less Than 1 Percent

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:34:33 +0000

If recent reports hold true, Sony PlayStation 3 users may be spending more than their friends for a "next generation console" to save on the hassle of returning damaged goods. Sure all new consoles come... Read more...

Retailers Estimate Xbox 360 Failure Rate High as 33 Percent

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:04:34 +0000

By several metrics, the Xbox 360 is the most successful console so far of this generation. Despite the startling pace of the Wii, the Xbox 360 still has the most consoles sold worldwide and the... Read more...

Anti-spam law critics predict failure

Darren Bolton — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:48:00 +0000

EU directive will be crippled by countries failing to comply, warn anti-spam experts The new anti-spam directive which came into force today will not stop unsolicited email, critics have warned. ... Read more...

Analysts say Linux is poised for desktop failure

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:02:39 +0000

Despite a recent surge in interest in Linux, it will fail to make much of an impression on the desktop, claims a Gartner analyst. Linux will be deployed on no more than... Read more...

eConnections failure will test rivals

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:53:08 +0000

The stunning demise of eConnections has sent shock waves through the broader supply chain services market, where more casualties may be imminent. The same factors forcing eConnections to throw in the towel-the slumping... Read more...